SOLUTION: How do you do surface area?

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Question 138291This question is from textbook Pre-Algebra
: How do you do surface area? This question is from textbook Pre-Algebra

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Surface area of what? Sphere? Cone? Cylinder? Cube? Rectangular Prism? Pyramid? In general, the surface area of a solid is the sum of the areas of the plane faces. For a sphere, 4%2Api%2Ar%5E2, for a cone pi%2Ar%2As where r is the radius of the base and s is the slant height or pi%28rs%2Br%5E2%29 if you want to include the area of the base. Right circular cylinder is 2rh where r is the radius of the base and h is the height, or 2rh%2B2%2Api%2Ar%5E2 if you want to include the area of the bases. Please be more specific about what you want in the future. It is very difficult for us to guess at what you need when you give so little information.